<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Jim, </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thanks for the reply. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>OpenStack ... for sure have heard of it. I'd have to bounce it off the customer & the prime contractor to see if it would fly. Kind of doubt it since the contractor is building their PaaS / SaaS solution on Could Foundry (VMware hypervisor), a competing cloud project.
</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Some of the software has been selected, but regarding management of the CentOS VMs, there is still more vetting out to find the right solution. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Mark</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top:
5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jim Ockers <ockers@ockers.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Mark G. Harvey <markgharvey@yahoo.com>; CLUE's mailing list <clue@cluedenver.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:40 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [clue] deploy, configure, & manage<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7586288433">
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<div class="yiv7586288433moz-cite-prefix">Have you looked at OpenStack? Or is
that not appropriate for the diverse set of machines/services
you'll run on these machines?<br>
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On 5/23/13 12:38 PM, Mark G. Harvey wrote:<br>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">CLUE folks, </span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Got
a Sys Admin question: I'm looking for recommendations /
suggestions to <font style="background-color:transparent;"><span>deploy,
configure, & manage</span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;"> a couple dozen
CentOS machines across Development, Staging, Production
environments. </span></span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I
plan to build a template with all the common components
& apps such as monitoring agents (eg. Tripwire), vFabric
tc (tomcat), etc. Then capture a kickstart file to automate
deployment to a second machine ... but this seem like one at
a time deployment process. </span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Looking
for tools to modify & deploy stuff like repo settings,
packages, scripts, accounts, passwords, networking, etc.
I'm sure you know the drill. </span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I've
heard of the following tools ... but don't know which is a
good fit, if any. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">cfengine</span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">puppet</span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">chef</span><br>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">spacewalk</span><br>
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<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm sure there are
very experienced folks on this message distribution list who
have suggestions & gotchas that should be considered.
Appreciate the help. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TIA</span><br>
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